What are some of the questions you should consider when debating whether to launch an application “in the cloud” or deploy the app on your premises? In this series of blog posts coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, I’ve been answering these questions: #1 Can [...]
Continuing the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, let’s ask the question: #7 Can the cloud keep up with innovation better that what you can deliver inside your enterprise? Communications technology doesn’t stand still. Is the cloud communication provider you are considering [...]
Continuing the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, let’s ask the question: #6 What kind of real-time analytics and linkage to business intelligence solutions are possible? When you are evaluating cloud solutions, it’s not enough just to have a cloud platform run [...]
Continuing the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, let’s ask the question: #5 Can you get IP communications (ex. SIP) for rich integration into your infrastructure? This is a key question to ask any cloud communications service – can you interact with [...]
The fourth in the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, is simply this: #4 Are you locked in to the cloud provider or can you move to another vendor? What happens if you don’t like the cloud provider any more? Maybe you [...]
Next up in the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, let’s ask the question: #3. Is the same software used on your premise and in the cloud? This is perhaps a more subtle question… if you are looking at a cloud versus [...]
Continuing the series of questions coming out of our webinar, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, let’s ask the question: #2 Can you deploy faster into the cloud? How agile are your internal processes? How fast can you deploy applications within your internal infrastructure? How fast can you make changes [...]
After the great discussion we had in our webinar this week, “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“, I thought I would expand on the questions that I included at the end of the webinar. So I’ll start with a series of posts about 7 questions to think about when considering [...]
As I mentioned last week, I was part of a webinar panel on Wednesday looking at questions like: Would you like to learn how to use analytics and business intelligence to create a better experience for your customers? As you move into multi-channel communication across voice, SMS, IM and more, would you like to have [...]
